Aboriginal are the original natives of Australia. They are the Indigenous Australians that lived in Australia and its islands prior to colonization by the European. Aboriginal people are characteristically different culturally and ethnically from Tiwi people, Torres Strait Islander people, and Noongar people (O'Halloran, 2012). Australian Aboriginal people are recognized as one of the oldest existing cultures in the world with approximations ranging from 450,000 to 110,000 years (O'Halloran, 2012). They relished a semi-nomadic way of life in community, family, or groups.
Australia’s first inhabitants, the Aborigines, arrived from Southeast Asia 50,000 years earlier. They lived in nomadic groups, travelling around their territories, hunting with spears and boomerangs, fishing from canoes, and gathering fruit and vegetables. The languages of the Aborigines offered a large number of words to Australian English. They had no written language, but passed on valuable knowledge by word of mouth and in song. Aboriginal groups were multilingual, as a result of exogamous marriage patterns, and individuals spoke several languages, while claiming
In the same way English language also developed through cultures and through cultural rituals and norms. One of the person named Jacob Grimm once said that I haven’t seen any language other than English getting so many acceptances and language which seems to be a sort of divine language. English was called the language which never falls. From the year 1850s around the globe there were almost 60 million people which were speaking English and this rate could be multiplied by three in to this age. At the end of the nineteenth century and at the start of the twentieth century English language showed much growth due to the many social events that took place and English language during this course grew more and
Thus, if human language did emanate from a divine source, no way/method has been found yet to reconstruct the said original language. 2) The Natural Sound Source A different view holds the belief that human speech is based on “natural sounds.” In this belief, primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sounds which early people heard around them. In fact, all modern languages have some words with pronunciations, which seem to “echo” naturally occurring sounds. In English for example, there are words like splash, bang, boom, rattle, hiss, screech and other such forms of onomatopeia. Keeping this type in view, a theory called “bow-wow theory was formulated which presented the same idea about the origin of language.
The Importance of Indigenous Cultures Indigenous cultures have been an integral part of the world since, well, the very beginning. Having maintained their culture and rich history, indigenous peoples live in harmony with the community and world around them. Although many cultural Darwinists believe otherwise, native cultures are important and hold a place in this world. Indigenous cultures should survive because of the way they hold knowledge and wisdom, contain valuable members of society and there have been many negative results in assimilation already. Native cultures can teach us many things, from the true meaning of happiness to the best and most efficient way to collect water.
Due to the strength of the British Empire, English language spread to many parts of the world. Over time, English spoken in the United States and in Britain started diverging from each other in various aspects, which led to two dialects in the form of the British English and the American English. When starting to study
The English language has experienced all kind of transformations since the beginning of its existence. Certainly, it has been influenced by a great number of languages. For instance, Nordic languages had a great influence around the 9th century while they cohabited in England. Moreover, English incorporated new words and concepts from Romance languages, as Latin and French, due to the influence of religion, and the conquest of England by the Normand around the 11th century (OS?). Later, the influence of the colonies caused also significant transformations mainly on the English vocabulary.
Australian people Australia is one of the most ethnically diverse societies in the world today. Almost one in four Australian residents were born outside of Australia and many more are first or second generation Australians, the children and grandchildren of recently arrived migrants and refugees. This wide variety of backgrounds, together with the culture of Indigenous Australians who have lived on the Australian continent for more than 50,000 years, have helped create a uniquely Australian identity and spirit. Indigenous peoples and cultures Before the arrival of British colonisers in 1788, Australia was inhabited by the Indigenous peoples - Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, sometimes referred to as the First Australians. Aboriginal people inhabited the whole of Australia and Torres Strait Islanders lived on the islands between Australia and Papua New Guinea, in what is now called the Torres Strait.
Why language evolved can easily be fathomed but the when and the how still remain debatable and mysterious. Kathryn Thornton opines, “Language leaves behind no fossils and could not be recorded until the advent of writing, some 5,000 years ago. However, it seems reasonable to assume that language evolved along with early modern humans at least 100,000 years ago” . Concerning literature Raymond Williams is of the opinion that it is of comparatively recent origin which refers to “any written, printed matter on any subject” . One is not entering into a serious discussion on the aptness and inaptness, adequacy or inadequacy of what Williams hold.
Learners are introduced to more issues and perspectives, knowledge and skills. We learn from people who have different experiences, beliefs and perspectives to our own. Cultural and